after frying tallow to get the oil out you're left with leftover bits of hard, fried tallow (i've been keeping them in the fridge alongside the liquid tallow). today i woke up, didn't eat breakfast for a while, glanced in the mirror and my eyes had some redness — so i purposefully ate some of those fried bits of tallow while standing in front of the mirror. AND I LITERALLY WATCHED THE REDNESS DISAPPEAR! within a minute of swallowing it had receeded and was gone!! your eyes don't get cured this fast from any medicine!

can't believe i lived all my life without eating this stuff!! tallow is apparently the original:
• moisturizer, grease (for metal)
• nail polish, lip gloss, hair gloss, tooth polish
• chapstick, hand cream
• eye medicine, daiper rash cream
• salad oil, frying oil, butter
• bird feed, cat food, dog food

anyway. yesterday i finally got to send in the stuff to request my VISA. still having problems with the bank so i still can't order plane tickets or pick up my reading glasses. if worse comes to worst i'm gonna just open up a new bank account... not much time left.

the esperanto-japanese yuri game had a radio program:
http://www.onsen.ag/index.html?pid=kotonoha

i haven't finished listening to it yet but it's "easy talking" so i've understood a whole lot.

also my japanese friend (from the online game i play) is helping me figure out how to get a cell phone in japan - turns out we can't use our swedish ones for ANYTHING there. we can't even surf on free wifi without having to pay money!!